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The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) was a left-of-center and environmentalist activist and grantmaking organization chaired by Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio that distributed grants totaling more than $100 million from 1998 until 2019.
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit umbrella organization overseeing Wikipedia, MediaWiki, Wikisource, and other projects. Its stated mission is to gather and disseminate knowledge around the world at no cost to recipients. 1 Founding
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The United Nations Foundation is a private charitable nonprofit organization that supports the initiatives and advocacy of the United Nations. CNN founder and environmentalist activist Ted Turner created the Foundation in 1997 with a ten-year, $1 billion pledge.
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The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation (Broad Foundation) is a philanthropic foundation funded by California billionaire Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe. From 1999 through 2016 the Broad Foundation provided grants totaling at least $1.5 billion, 87 percent of which went to three areas: K-12 education, science and health, and
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The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is a major private grantmaking foundation based in Milwaukee. The foundation’s reported net assets totaled approximately $893 million as of December 31, 2017, and it approved a net of about $33.5 million in grant contributions for charitable purposes that year.
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The John Templeton Foundation was created by investor Sir John Templeton. Since his death in 2005, it has been led after the founder’s death by his late son, John Templeton Jr., and by his grandchildren, Heather Templeton Dill and Jennifer Templeton Simpson. The foundation’s primary focus is exploring the scientific
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The Knight Foundation is a left-leaning private foundation that sets a primary emphasis on funding media-related projects. The foundation, which was seeded by the estate of economically conservative newspaper publisher John S. “Jack” Knight, began by endowing chairs in journalism at universities. In the past decade, the foundation has funded
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New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is a left-of-center think tank in the United States. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, education, and the economy. The think tank’s scholars and affiliated commentators include former and some
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The ClimateWorks Foundation is a left-of-center “pass-through” funding entity that distributes funds from donors to environmentalist advocacy groups around the world. Many of these nonprofits lobby for emissions taxes, restricting coal use, international climate treaties with strict enforcement mechanisms, and diminishing the use of cars.
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The Wyss Foundation is a private foundation established in 1998 by Swiss billionaire and former Synthes CEO Hansjorg Wyss, an environmentalist activist and former CEO of the controversial medical device manufacturer Synthes.
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (also known as the Hewlett Foundation) is a private foundation established in 1966 by Hewlett-Packard co-founder William R. Hewlett, his wife Flora, and his son Walter.
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The Mangrove Foundation is a subsidiary of the Atlantic Philanthropies, a private foundation created in 1982 by Irish-American businessman Chuck Feeney. The Atlantic Philanthropies focuses its giving on health, social, and politically left-of-center public policy causes in Australia, Bermuda, Ireland, South Africa, the United States, and Vietnam. A philanthropic
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The Energy Foundation, also known as the United States Energy Foundation, is a left-of-center “pass through” charitable foundation founded by and supported by a network of left-wing organizations. The Foundation began in January 1991 as a $20 million collaborative between the Pew Charitable Trusts, Rockefeller family foundations, and
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Also see Tides Nexus The Tides Foundation is a major center-left grantmaking organization and a major pass-through funder to numerous left-leaning nonprofits. The San Francisco, California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit was founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, a professional political activist who has since retired from the organization, to funnel
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Katherine Maher is an American nonprofit executive who worked as chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation from 2014 to 2021 and was appointed president and CEO of National Public Radio in March 2024. In April 2024, Maher attracted controversy for numerous statements indicating left-of-center political views after
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New Jersey Monitor is a left-of-center media organization that covers news in the state of New Jersey. It was launched by States Newsroom, a nonprofit journalism coalition based in Washington, D.C., that creates left-leaning state-focused media organizations throughout the United States. As of March 2024, New Jersey Monitor has
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Instituto Lab is a left-of-center political activism and advocacy organization based in Arizona that advocates for a left-of-center policies and incubates left-of-center campaigns, programs, and organizations. The group is also known as Instituto and consists of two organizations: Instituto Lab, the charitable/educational arm that operates most of the organization’s programs,
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Karger Publishers is a Switzerland-based medical and scientific publisher that has published papers in support of left-of-center approaches to transgender medical care for young people and the concept of gender dysphoria.
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West Virginia Watch is an online news outlet located in Charleston, West Virginia launched by States Newsroom. It reports on West Virginia state politics and policies focusing on left-of-center issues such as criminal justice, education, health, labor, the environment, and energy.
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Alabama Reflector is a daily online media outlet that covers state government and politics in Alabama. It reports on political and community events, publishes investigative journalism, and features national political news. 1 Alabama
